Useful Resources
This is a list of useful sources of information on accessibility:
- US DoD Section 508
Although the US legislation has no force here, it does outline many aspects of good practice
- W3C Accessibility Initiative
This is supported by the US Department of Education, the European Commission, and various companies such as IBM
- SKILL (National Bureau of Students with Disabilities)
Has some useful information and practical guidance
- Making Flash accessible
Accessibility in Flash from the Adobe site.
Free Resources
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RoboBraille
RoboBraille is a service where you can send a Word document and it will return it in MP3 format.
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Natural Reader
Provides text to speech conversion for documents, web pages, emails etc.
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Accessible PDF
Customise fonts and colours while reading a PDF, high contrast colours, save PDF as text or web page.
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Read The Words
Customise fonts and colours while reading a PDF, high contrast colours, save PDF as text or web page.
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QR Codes
Generate a QR code for free. Install the QR code reading software for your phone.
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LetMeType
Word prediction software which works in Microsoft Word and all other programs which require text input.
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Extension for Firefox which provides accessibility features for web pages with a text to speech reader integrated.Accessibar
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Both enable interviews and conference calls to be recorded as MP3 to be used as learning objects.Skype and SAM (Skype Answering Machine)
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ScreenToaster
Free online screen recorder
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Ipadio
Free instant podcasts from your mobile
